Tuesday 12 June 2007
Flapjacks
Um, here's a question: Why can you always get flapjacks in health food stores when actually they are mostly full of boldness? I have made several attempts at finding an oatie alternative to the traditional flapjack and only today discovered that a whole packet of equally yum "fruit and spice oat biscuits" has less fat in it than one (though no-doubt very nice) flapjack on the shelf beside. Now i am sorry to be going on about such things but i am terribly fond of flapjacks and did manage to quite successfully delude myself that they were a healthy alternative with coffee at 10.30am not too long ago (and for quite some time) - which might explain why today's worry is how best to get myself back in pre-flapjack (okay okay, amongst other things) shape - boooooo.
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This is very pertinent question and one that I myself have previsously come up against. On discovering that flapjacks come firmly under the dessert, rather than healthy snack category, I decided to search for a recipe for a healthy version. Found one that had loads of lovely fruity and nutty things in it, made them, threw them out. Tasted like saw dust. I suppose the thing may be that oats are by their nature, very dry and you need something to moisten them, butter tends to step into the breach here, I wonder if you could use orange juice or somethig in the batter or would that not work??? Good work on finding the oat biscuits though, where can you get them, do they have lots of things that sound like chemicals in them?
Hmmm, let's see... Wholegrain oats (64%), Demerera sugar , currants (10%), palm fruit oil, dietary fibre, partially inverted sugar (hmm, not so good?), potato starch, mixed spice, barley malt syrup, raising agents, ammonium bicarbonate and sodium bicarbonate, salt - oh dear, it all started out so well!!! the sawdust trouble is exactly it:/ orange juice might work in a fruity one alright, mind you, the butter also binds it all together - what are we going to do there? i don;t suppose jelly is an option?:)
I have a recipe for ANZAC buscuits which I think is very nice, but maybe that depends on having grown up with them. My recipe uses olive oil and yogurt; you can't taste either but it does get away from the sawdust problem, they're very filling and not bad for you. I also have a brand of oaty cookie that I really like, and when I remember what it is, will post it on to you.
C'sGirl - that's actually not half as bad as it might be, the stuff at the end that sounds dodgy I'm pretty sure is just baking powder :) I don't think you can bake jelly, but I may well be wrong. I suppose it might be possible to soak the oats overnight or something in the oj or aj, like you do with porrige if you want to get a jump on it in the morning.
H - what's an ANZAZ? Yogurt sounds really interesting, certainly novel :) Does olive oil actaully contain less calories or is it just they're unsaturated calories?
ANZAC stands for 'Australian and New Zealand Army Corps'. ANZAC biscuits started life as the terrestrial equivolent of ships' biscuits. Its all a bit Mel Gibson 'Gallipoli' and I prefer to compare it to the way bread the elves give Frodo. Olive oil has far less saturated fat and my old History proffesor claims that it will not put weight on you, nor adversly effect your health in anyway. (In fairness, he's the kind of man who thinks that nothing short of the Borgias adversly effects your health.) Also, they don't need the olive oil, the yogurt fills the bill; the oil is only for if you're being decadant.
Goodness and it's necessary to have more than one Borgia as well!
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